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This is my first posting, I am still a bit of an internet virgin. I have been looking everywhere for help with meta tags but everyone seems to have a different view on them. I was wondering if you could have a look at mine and see if they are ok?

Actually, although <title> is not a <meta> tag, it is, strictly speaking, meta. "Meta" is short for "metainformation", which translates as "information about information". Your webpage is information; <title> and <meta> tags give information about your webpage.

By that definition, certain <meta> tags (such as the "meta refresh") are not, strictly speaking, meta. It's a strange, confusing world, but there it is.

If you include <meta name="reply-to" content="your.email@address.com" /> you get e-mails from people (actually bots) telling you they "found your site and noticed it's not showing up in some search engine inquiries" and they can fix that if you pay them lots of money. :)

Is it worth anything, for example on the default page of a multilingual site?

I would not have thought so inless you had instances of that word within the index page. It would be better to have the keywords specific to the particular language section. It seemed to work OK for me when I did the same, although metas dont have the same usfulness they one did.